Glenn
Tomkinson Printmaker

About me

My work is mainly aquatints combined with etching and
recently I have been using white ink on black paper to represent
caves or dark interiors. I
produce small editions of up to 20. For each print, the plate or
block is inked by hand, so no two are identical. It is the
limitations and difficulties of printmaking which allow me to find
the essential elements in the image. Most of my work is rooted in
landscape but can also find inspiration in buildings. My work
acknowledges the influence of my youthful exploration of the
abstract in art while retaining a response to the visual stimulus
of the world around us.

Dover Harbour

Aquatint and
Etching.

In 1997 I retired after over 30
years working in Education. For 13 years I lived in Cumbria where I
took up printmaking and exhibited in local Galleries including a
one-man show at Abbot Hall in Kendal. After moving to Dover, I
continued to make prints and after retirement I began to
exhibit again, in particular, with the "Image" group of printmakers
based in Whitstable.

I returned to live in Cumbria in
2003 and have exhibited widely within the County since
then.

Current and Recent
Exhibitions

Upfront Open
Exhibition

Upfront Gallery,
Unthank, Penrith

29th January -
24th March

Cumbria
Printmakers

Theatre by the
Lake, Keswick

29th May - 7th
June

Priory
Printmakers

Lanercost Priory,
Brampton, Cumbria

1st - 8th
June

Evan Open
Studios

Dalemain House
near Penrith

15th - 23rd
June

Theme and
Variations

Upfront
Gallery

23rd July - 15th
September

Craftsmen at the
Priory

Lanarcost
Priory

5th August - 5th
September

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Galleries

Upfront Gallery near Penrith

Commissions

Faber and Faber: Cover and endpapers for a new edition of
Wordsworth's poetry edited by Seamus Heany.